Harvests, Culls, Welding, Building Trail and Gate, Cutting Wood, Hike, Repair - Tuesday
Thankfully my thumb didn't get broken and it is just the swelling beneath the nail that is painful. Yesterday morning it was feeling a lot less swollen and I was able to use my hand a lot better during the day.
Only 7 pounds of squash but there are a bunch that will be ready today.
A spider has a nice orb web on the end of the tool shed. It was hard to get it to show in the bright sun and shadows.
I pulled the way too overgrown radishes from the spinach row. The spinach is all done now and I need to clear the 3 rows and salvage what I can of the plants.
One of my gates to the garden keeps popping the spring and I decided to try a tack weld to keep the spring from losing the metal plug that holds it to the bracket. It was a very tight little area I had to work and I managed to get a small bead of weld on the spring and a little bit on the plug. I have it reinstalled and will see if it will hold now.
The pole beans and cucumbers needed to be trained again onto the wires. One of the cucumber plants has a cucumber on it that should be ready to pick within a few days.
The bean rows had a smattering of ripe ones that I picked which gave me just over 2 pounds. I ended up with just shy of 10 pounds in the cooler.
Hauled tools up the hill a bit then got started on the trail. It had been overgrown and I want an actual trail path so I took the pick, rake, and shovel to the hill and leveled out a path for part of the trail.
I got hot and dripping sweat so I went to cool off before gathering the things to make a gate at the top of the pen. I cut a 5 foot length of the field fence on the way up.
I cut the fence to the sheep pen, pounded a fence post in and wrapped the fence around it. The other side of the fence got wrapped around a tree and the gate piece got attached to the tree side. The post side opens and is not super tight so @stryeyz can get it open.
After another short break to cool off and to eat something I headed back up the hill with the chainsaw again and cut up one long downed tree that was across the path and then I hacked at the big more recent tree.
I got the top of the tree cleared of where the trail will be running and I can now move all the branches and debris. The big tree is still really green and gave the saw a bit of trouble.
I had been meaning to do it all day but finally got to moving some of the chips to the birds. I wheelbarrowed a load of chips to the pallet hut and spread them out inside, then I spread a layer in the brooder hut.
Once @stryeyz got home from work we went for a hike up the hill and around the sheep pen. One of the juvenile bald eagles flew right at us then up and around and landed in a tree not far from us.
Beneath the nest tree I found the remnants of a rabbit leg and down at the south end of the pen I found this rabbit hair scattered around the ground. Super soft hair and spread around in tufts.
I went to get beans to go with dinner and had to spend a few minutes fixing the handle to the cooler. I removed the short screws and put in 2" ones that have the handle super solid now.
The tub was rather hot so I got the hose in it while we soaked to cool it off a bit. I need to do the same today to get it cooled back down as the thermal creep is a bit large sometimes.
Today I am going to work on the trail some more after picking in the garden. This evening we are going fishing for the cub scout meeting and it will be just a couple minutes north at Bear Lake. I also will be getting everything ready for Thursday as the boys and I will be leaving the house super early to head up to Art's where we will tow his sail boat down to the Columbia river then go sail for the day. I need to have food and everything ready tonight so we can just get up and go since it is over an hour drive there.
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Glad your thumb is better! The trail looks good! When you mentioned cooling off, I thought of your creek. Haven't heard mention of it this year for quite a while...
My little squash I had coming, something happened to them. They stopped growing and are spotty. :((